Top Creatine Gummies on Amazon Contain Little to No Creatine, Report Finds
Many of the most popular creatine gummies on Amazon contain shockingly low levels of the compound per serving, according to lab tests
Some of the bestselling creatine supplements on Amazon don’t contain any creatine at all and are “massive failures,” according to a new report.
That bold claim is backed up by the results of a new testing program from SuppCo, a supplement tracking platform that raised $5.5 million last year to help people make more sense of the supplement industry.
As part of its new testing program, SuppCo buys random supplements off the shelf and sends them to a third-party lab for testing. For its debut test, SuppCo focused exclusively on creatine monohydrate, the most well-researched and widely taken form of creatine on the market. The platform tested 10 popular “budget” creatine monohydrate products in gummy and powder form.
The good news: nearly every creatine supplement passed SuppCo’s heavy metals test, meaning they didn’t have dangerously high levels of those harmful substances.
Additionally, all five of the creatine powders tested by SuppCo contained around 5 grams of creatine per serving, in line with their advertising claims. The powders also all scored high on purity levels, and contained low levels of creatinine, a waste product produced by the muscles that can be dangerous in high amounts.
The bad news: four out of the six creatine gummies studied by SuppCo contained shockingly low levels of creatine per serving. Two of the gummies contained no creatine at all, and two of them contained far less than one gram per serving, rendering them effectively useless when taken in reasonable quantities (the normal recommended dose of creatine is three to five grams per day).
Those four creatine gummies also all contained high levels of creatinine, adding insult to injury.
In SuppCo’s own words, “Creatine gummies performed terribly” in lab tests and most of the products it tested can be described as “lacking quality control.”
What’s worse, the creatine gummy products that SuppCo chose are bestsellers on Amazon. “Happyummmm,” the second most popular creatine gummy on Amazon, contained just .005 grams of creatine per serving while “EcoWise,” the fourth bestselling gummy, didn’t have any creatine. The other two creatine gummies that failed, “DivinusLab” and “Vidabotan,” are also popular on Amazon,
“Combined, we are talking about over 50k fake creatine gummy products purchased on Amazon from these brands in the last month alone,” SuppCo said.
On the bright side, the most popular creatine gummy on Amazon, “Create,” passed SuppCo’s test with flying colors, containing 4.59 grams of creatine per serving, slightly higher than its advertised claim of 4.5 grams. Another popular creatine gummy, “Force Factor,” also performed well.
A Sticky Situation: Why Gummies Might Not Be the Best Supplement Choice
The SuppCo test makes a compelling argument that you should opt for powder over gummies the next time you go creatine shopping. It also sheds light on a potentially troubling truth of the supplement industry: gummies might not be the best choice for serious supplement takers, despite their newfound popularity.
Long mocked as being for kids only, gummy supplements and multivitamins have been growing in popularity among adults in recent years, with many people preferring them over pills and powders due to taste and portability. The Vitamin Shoppe even named gummies as one of its top five wellness trends of 2025, while the functional gummies market is projected to grow to $2.4 billion by 2030.
However, SuppCo warns that gummies can be hard to dose properly since they require additional sugars, binders and stabilizers.
“The popular candy-like format of gummies also makes what’s in them a black box in many cases, and a notorious category for fraud in the supplement industry,” the report stated.
Whatever the future holds for gummies, SuppCo’s head of science Jordan Glenn stresses that the company’s testing program isn’t a “gotcha” project but an effort to give consumers more transparent information on the supplements they’re buying.
“The goal is to build something that’s missing in the supplement world: real trust. Not hype, not marketing language, just data and honest analysis,” Glenn wrote in the creatine report.
Update: Some language in this article has been adjusted to reflect updates SuppCo made to its creatine report.